Speaking at the opening of the People’s Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty of Our America, the Cuban intellectual expressed his pride in the presence of a large delegation from the island at this meeting.

He stated that the Cuban delegation includes representatives from all sectors of revolutionary civil society, including the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity, women, farmers, workers, and the National Assembly (parliament).

Prieto declared that the Cuban people have followed this entire criminal escalation in detail, the lies upon lies, which are used as a permanent weapon of war to confuse and try to divide the people of Cuba and Venezuela.

The writer highlighted as admirable the fact that millions of Venezuelans responded to President Nicolas Maduro’s call to enlist in the Bolivarian People’s Militias, which reminded him of Fidel and Raul Castro’s military doctrine of the War of the Entire People, adopted by President Miguel Duaz-Canel.

“In the Bolivarian Republic, I have not seen anyone afraid or insecure, and the people have responded with great bravery, firmness, courage, and dignity to the call to battle issued by the Head of State and the leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela,” he emphasized.

The Cuban researcher commented that what is at stake here is not only the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Cuba, but also the balance of the world, and called for a halt to this “monstrous and grotesque offensive that violates all norms of civilized coexistence and international law, which is being pulverized.”

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